Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
Julian Casablancas
Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
Richard Cecil
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how... →
Pierre Charron
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
John Cheever
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
Anton Chekhov
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
To advise is not to compel.
The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that... →
Dick Cheney
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not... →
Gilbert K. Chesterton